Privacy Policy

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Our e-commerce platform — which is currently available only in certain states — is hosted by Squarespace, and governed by the La Fermière Privacy Policy, available here.

How we use your personal information

We may use your personal information to offer your goods and services, complete a transaction, and to communicate with you.  If you place an order through our e-commerce platform, we use the categories of personal information noted above to process your order and contact you, for example with a customer survey or product recall.  If you are a business contact of ours, we may use your personal information to contact you about a business transaction or order, or for marketing purposes.

 For more information on how we process employee and applicant information, please click here.

Categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties in the past 12 months and reason for disclosure

In the last past 12 months, we have not sold personal information or shared it for purposed of targeted advertising. However, we, like many companies that provide products and services to customers, may utilize third parties to perform specific functions on our behalf for specific business purposes. For example, we may disclose your personal information to the following categories of third parties under the following conditions:

• To provide products or services you have requested as part of a transaction.

• When we hire contractors to perform services for us including IT and data processing contractors.

• When disclosure is required by law. For instance, we will disclose your personal information if we receive a court order or valid subpoena instructing us to turn over data.

• To investigate suspected fraud, illegal activities, or threats to any person.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with notice.

Your privacy rights

Depending on where you reside, applicable law may provide you with certain privacy rights, such as the right to confirm that we are processing your personal information, the right of access or the right to correct your personal information. You may also have the right to delete some or all of the personal information we have collected from or about you; valid requests to delete may be fulfilled by deleting or de-identifying this information, although we will retain any information we are required to keep by law. To exercise these rights, please contact us through one of the following means:

Email: privacy-lafinc@lafermiere.com

California Privacy Rights

As a California resident, you have the rights listed below with respect to the information we collect from you. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases we may decline your request as permitted by law.  The rights of a California resident in relation to the personal information we process are listed below.

Access Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. We will disclose to you:

●          The categories of personal information we collect about you.

●          The categories of sources for the personal information we collect about you.

●          Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.

●          The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.

●          The specific pieces of personal information we collect about you.

●          The categories of personal information disclosed to third-parties for a business purpose.

All of this information, except for the specific pieces of personal information we collect about you, is provided above.

Deletion Rights

You have the right to request deletion of any personal information we collect from you, subject to certain exceptions. We retain information for the period of time and purposes described in this Privacy Policy. However, even if you request a deletion, we may deny your request if the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

●          Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected.

●          Detect security incidents and product against any malicious, fraudulent activity.

●          Debug and/or repair errors.

●          Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise that right of free speech, or exercise another right provided by law.

●          Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code §1546).

●          Engage in a public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical or statistical research that complies with all applicable ethics and privacy laws.

●          Comply with a legal obligation.

Non-Retaliation Rights

Of course, you are entitled to exercise your rights and be free from retaliation. This means that we will not do any of the following because you exercise any of your data rights:

●          Deny you goods or services.

●          Charge different prices for goods or services for exercising your rights (whether through denying benefits or imposing penalties).

●          Provide you with a different level of quality of goods or services.

●          Threaten you with any of the above.

Right to Correct Inaccurate personal information

You have the right to request a correction of any inaccurate personal information we have about you, and we shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make such corrections after we receive a verifiable consumer request.

Right to Limit Sensitive personal information.

We do not collect sensitive personal information, other than in relation to employment. 

For more information on how we process employee and applicant information, please click here.

Verifying requests

 Please note that if you make a request, we will need to verify or authenticate your identity (that you are the person that is the subject of the request, the legal guardian of that person, or in some jurisdictions an authorized representative) to carry out the requests. In order to verify your identity, we may ask for certain additional information that we will only use for the purpose of this verification. If we can’t authenticate your identity, we will let you know. Note, in order to maximize the potential that we can identify you when you make a request, please use the information you provided to us, for example when you placed an order or otherwise communicated with us. If you use personal information not in our possession when you make a request, we may not be able to identify you.

Response timing and format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt or as otherwise required by law. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically

If we cannot process your request, we will inform you of the reason why. For data portability requests, where applicable, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without undue hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If, under applicable law, we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Appeal rights

If we deny a request you make concerning your personal information, you may have the right to appeal that denial. If so, we will provide you information concerning your appeal right when we deny your request. We will respond to your appeal within 45 days of receipt, although this time may be extended as permitted by applicable law.

Protecting your personal information

 We have put in place administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet and other networks that are beyond our control. The security, integrity, and privacy of any personal information and data exchanged between you and us cannot be guaranteed.

Privacy of children under the age of 16

 We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone that we know is under the age of 16. In no event should children under the age of 16 provide any personal information through our website. If we become aware that you are under 16, your data is subject to deletion.

Retention of personal information

We will store and process your personal information for as long as is necessary depending on the purposes of the processing, the contractual relationship between us and to comply with record retention laws and regulations.

Contact information

 If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at privacy-lafinc@lafermiere.com or by any of the means outlined in "Your rights" section above.

Changes

We will notify you if we change this policy by listing it on your account or by posting changes on this page.

To print out a copy of this Policy, click here.

This Privacy Policy is effective May 27, 2024.